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Proclamation Line
forbid the american colonist to settle west of the appalachian mountains. Was one of many attempts to define a boundary that would separate colonists from Native Americans. -
Stamp Act
taxed are placed all paper goods by british to help pay for french and indian war. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Quartering Act
Is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Declaratory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence
declaration is the independence of the united states from great britain. It is the statement adopted by the second contiental congress meeting at the pensslyvania state house. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend had acts placed taxes on imported materials such as glasses, lead, paint, paper, and tea. there revenue act was powerful & effective. -
Boston Massacre
Boston had five incident people killed. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Committee of Correspondence
network of individuals that kept people informed throught out the colonies. the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence. -
Tea act
It was an act of parilament of great britain. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on Tea. The Tea Act forced colonists to buy tea from the East India Tea Company. -
Boston Tea Party
There tea is being boycotted. British passed a law removing tax from british tea -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
Were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British. Theyre also known as coerciveActs were a package of five laws implemented by the British government -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
he hand drawn the description of the battle in lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston. The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th. -
Common Sense
Paine's common sense encourages break with britain. Expressed enlightment ideas of creating a better, more equal society.
